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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.4.
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
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>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</P
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>Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart.  This is a serious bug that has existed
since <SPAN
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>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</P
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>Fix buffer overrun in <CODE
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>Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned</P
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>Fix failure to respond to <TT
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>Repair memory leaks in pg_dump</P
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